Leesa Mountford says three and a half years ago she was left shocked and unsure of who to turn to when her 25-year-old son, Josh Clarke, took his own life. Then she founded I Got You, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
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Next year, the Master Builders Association of the ACT (MBA ACT) will celebrate its centenary, and now it has its first female CEO with a very clear goal: get more homes on the ground, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
The Sunday Trash and Treasure Market at Jamison is celebrating its 50th anniversary on September 8, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Jerrabomberra teen Hunter Howard is one of the youngest Australians to have been awarded the 1st dan black belt in hapkido, a Korean self-defence martial art, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
A disco flash mob gathers on the intersection of Northbourne Avenue and Alinga Street on the first Friday of every month to draw attention to the climate crisis, and it can be a lot of fun, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Canberra is now home to a new Afghani Language School, which already has more than 25 enrolled students after officially opening on August 11, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES
Tahlee Bearham is trying to raise awareness about the Australian blood stem cell donor registry. For her it's personal, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Mick Logue loves trivia, and he’s pretty good at it, being a three times Australian Pairs quizzing champion and a representative on the Australian national quiz team. But now he's gone one better. KATARINA LLOYD JONES reports.
Artist Heather Aspinall, of Ainslie, spent more than a year on the waiting list for a liver transplant. Then the call came. A donor was available. She and her husband, Steve Roberts, say the moment was wonderful, but bittersweet.
Holder resident Tony Jurd got an email saying he'd been honoured with the Medal of the Order of Timor-Leste. He dismissed it as a scam until he got a call asking whether he'd be attending the ceremony in Dili. And so he did, in mid-July.
In 1976, a group of university students would meet at the Kingston railway station to divide their bulk orders of food ordered from Sydney. This group would go on to become today's community owned bulk grocery store and cafe The Food Co-Op.
Next month's Light Up Lyneham event aims to provide an opportunity for residents to come together and celebrate their neighbourhood, event organiser and long-term resident Trevor Vickers tells reporter KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
![For graphic designer Tracy Hall, street art is like any artwork, her canvas has been swapped out for fences and plywood, her medium changing from watercolours to spray paint.
A Canberra resident for 13 years, Tracy has been a street and mural artist for the past five.
Her first exploration into grand-scale painting was at the Point Hut toilets in Banks five years ago. “They had just finished doing up the playground area for all the little kids and the words [of graffiti] that were coming up weren’t family friendly,” she says.
“So I ended up drawing this design and I got approval for the artwork.”
Many of Tracy’s time-consuming artworks are free, with thousands of her own dollars put into paint.
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